• What I Do

        Hello. My name is Cheryl Rickman.   I’m an author, ghostwriter, positive psychology practitioner and general chatterbox.   I write books to help people fret less and flourish more and I help bring out the book in well-being experts, TV personalities and business leaders who don't have the time to write their own manuscript.

      • Absolutely all that I do is about helping people to FLOURISH in their life, in business and in childhood; to create new empowering habits.

      • Because this really is our one and only ACTUAL LIFE. Happening right NOW!

      • Book of Rainbows  Meanings and Meditations

        With the coronavirus pandemic having such a huge impact on mental health, When World Mental Health Day came around I wracked my brains to figure out what I could do to contribute? Then it struck me - I could sell my 34 page RAINBOWS eBook online and donate 100% of the money raised from the sales of the book to mental health charity, MIND. So that's what I'm doing.  The Book of Rainbows is a beautiful 34 page eBook in PDF format available for download for just £2.50 (less than a cup of coffee) - all of which will be donated to MIND to help them help more people to cope with mental health problems and help them cope with mental illness.    It will not only tell you all about rainbows and provide you with a Rainbow Meditation, it will also make you feel good. You can also pat yourself on the pack for doing something good for charity.  Please see below for more details, buy a copy of the book via the Buy Now button below and share www.cherylrickman.co.uk/#book-of-rainbows to help me reach my target of selling 1000 copies of the eBook, so I can donate £2.5k to Mind.org. Thank you.



      • WHO I AM: My Story

        As a child, I looked up to my incredibly inspirational mum. She had the debilitating disease MS but, despite having plenty to whine about she never complained and constantly smiled.   My mum Denise and dad Roger met when they joined the same pop group and made it through to Melody Maker finals. I found this to be suitably cool and loved them both deeply.    I also loved how passionate my dad was  about a) his guitar playing and b) his garden. I noticed a difference in him when he was playing with me or his aforementioned musical /  botanical instruments of joy.

      • I didn't seem to have the immense imaginative talent to write fiction though, so I wrote features instead.   I interviewed lots of people. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things at first. Then successful people - popstars and rockstars for the music magazine site I set up with my other half, then business leaders and a range of inspirational people for business magazines and how-to-start-and-grow-a-business type books.     I learned a lot about achievement and failure and persistence from these others.     But, from myself, I learned resilience.     When I was 17 years old, my darling mum died. It hit me hard. How could/why would this happen? Yet, somehow, I summoned my inner strength, picked myself up and I lived.     I realised then that life was short. Hers was. She was 43.     After I'd come up for air and worked through my grief (and turbo-powered teenage angst/guilt/rebellion) I decided that, I actually wanted to make the most of my life. And so I stopped fopping around and raving on and sorted myself out.     I became my own boss, working from home, walking my dog in between writing features, websites and interviews.     A decade later, after pursuing and succeeding at my own dreams of becoming a free-range-author, I decided I wanted to help others to do the same; to live with intention and optimism; to make the most of their lives; like my mum had done and like my dad had just begun to do.

      • Cruelly, when I was half way through editing the pages of The Flourish Handbook, I learned that my dad had mesothelioma (asbestos-cancer) from his 30 years working for the railways. He'd been exposed to asbestos when he was a 16 year old apprentice.   Just three short weeks after this diagnosis, my dear dad was dead.   I didn’t show him the book as it was about living and he was shockingly about to lose his life. I just told him about it and he was, of course, immensely proud. But I didn’t expect to put the wisdom in that book into practice myself so soon.

      • And so, by day, I write books and am mummy; by night I work on my projects or see friends.

        I know what it’s like to juggle. I know what it’s like to suffer deep loss. I know what it’s like to want to get your message out there. I know what it’s like to want the best for your children.   And I would love to help you.   Whether you wish to author a book, learn how to flourish in life or business or teach your children how to flourish as they grow – I’d love to hear from you.

      • Shop

        You can buy the books I've written on Amazon worldwide - click the book covers to buy

      • My Blog

        Occasional infrequent musings about how to fret less and flourish more

      • Illustrations by the very marvellous Jo Bradshaw

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